Public Pedagogy:  Mining the Museum
University Studies Capstone Creative Industries Social Design
Instructor                Jen Delos Reyes, Art and Social Practice Faculty
Course Description:
For this Creative Industries Public Pedagogy Capstone students will explore the concept of the museum as a site of public knowledge. Over the 10 week course students will examine the structures of museums by [...]

A History of Art and Social Practice: Making Things, Making Things Better, Making Things Worse
Spring Quarter, 2010
Instructor: Jen Delos Reyes
Wednesdays 900-1150
ART 410, section 003
TOP: Hst of Art in Social Prac. CRN 44405
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course will trace a history of social practice in art and investigate as a group the current critiques, debates and issues surrounding [...]

As part of  The Incidental Person at Apex Art Helen Reed and Hannah Jickling created The Incidental Pancake, February 18-22, 2010, Bubby’s Pie Company, 120 Hudson Street in Tribeca, NY, NY.
We are looking forward to The Pancake Placement Group (PPG) presenting a version of The Incidental Pancake here in Portland Oregon as part of a [...]

Art and Social Practice faculty, Jen Delos Reyes and former student Eric Steen are both featured in Lateral Learning: A Book About Community, Pedagogy, Disaster and Art, Curated by Paul Butler and published by Vantage.

Current student Zach Springer just launched a new website for his project Build Something Together:

Congratulations to our recent graduate Eric Steen who just got a full-time teaching position at the University of Colorado Springs!

Please read our feature below on Eric to get a sense of all of the things he has been up to since graduation.

This past Monday we were lucky to have Paul Ramirez Jonas with us here at PSU for our Monday night lecture series.
He gave a warm, eloquent, funny and intelligent talk about his work that he prepared just for us, who he referred to as “his people”—Art and Social Practice artists.
To express his gratitude Paul sent [...]

1 substitution, 3 additions and one elaboration
Social Practice CV (This will replace the current CV requirement)
Create a 1 page CV for social practice art. This is not a standard resume and should include the following information: What things have you done that would help you in socially engaged work?  What life experiences do you [...]

The PSU MFA Art and Social Practice concentration have been invited to be a part of an upcoming exhibition at apexart titled The Incidental Person.